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Hi all
We are starting a new project and have to decide on either a 400H or 1500R/H. Hardware wise both PLC's should be fine, but I'd like to hear your first hand experiences with TIA v15 compared to Step7 5.6. I've used various Step7 "Classic" versions for 15 years and I'm very satisfied with how it works, but only briefly worked with TIA, and I think it was v13. I'm told v15 is much better than v13, and the choir of complaints on the forums seem to have died down. I'm still not convinced TIA is as good as Classic though, please enlighten me.
Below are my main concerns to get the conversation started. How does the following compare between v15 and v5.6:
1. Block compare. (If memory serves me, v13 only found the first difference in the block, and ignored everything in the following networks. Has this changed in v15?)
2. Block download. Can v15 download just a single DB? Just a single variable in a DB?
3. Stability/crashes.
4. How fast is it to work with? Time to compile etc.
5. Window management. Unless you have a very large screen, how practical is it to work with, resizing side bars etc?
6. Integration win WinCC.
7. "Trending". I see TIA comes with its own built in tool for this called Trace. How well does it work? Does it catch every PLC scan? Are you forced to use it, rather than for example ServiceLab or IbaPDA, due to optimized DB's and such?
First hand experience with v15 and v5.6 only please, no gripes about older versions or hopes for future versions.
Thanks!
We are starting a new project and have to decide on either a 400H or 1500R/H. Hardware wise both PLC's should be fine, but I'd like to hear your first hand experiences with TIA v15 compared to Step7 5.6. I've used various Step7 "Classic" versions for 15 years and I'm very satisfied with how it works, but only briefly worked with TIA, and I think it was v13. I'm told v15 is much better than v13, and the choir of complaints on the forums seem to have died down. I'm still not convinced TIA is as good as Classic though, please enlighten me.
Below are my main concerns to get the conversation started. How does the following compare between v15 and v5.6:
1. Block compare. (If memory serves me, v13 only found the first difference in the block, and ignored everything in the following networks. Has this changed in v15?)
2. Block download. Can v15 download just a single DB? Just a single variable in a DB?
3. Stability/crashes.
4. How fast is it to work with? Time to compile etc.
5. Window management. Unless you have a very large screen, how practical is it to work with, resizing side bars etc?
6. Integration win WinCC.
7. "Trending". I see TIA comes with its own built in tool for this called Trace. How well does it work? Does it catch every PLC scan? Are you forced to use it, rather than for example ServiceLab or IbaPDA, due to optimized DB's and such?
First hand experience with v15 and v5.6 only please, no gripes about older versions or hopes for future versions.
Thanks!